1986 it was even worse !My first trip to China was in 1992. It was truly a third world country then. I was working in the Shenzhen Industrial Zone. I would eat eggs and toast at the hotel restaurant for breakfast. Then take two Snickers bars and two cans of V8 from my hotel room refrigerator bar. Ate the Snickers and V8s daily for lunch as there was no sanitary place to eat in the industrial zone. Got back late every night to the hotel and had peanuts and beer as dinner from my hotel room refrigerator bar.
The beer sucked.